"Green" policies are destroying this country

How dare you talk down the green economy. 😃

It's not like we haven't been here before, last time it was property bears and bulls. yours is exactly the type of negative energy that will lead to a bust. </sarc>. The whole green mania has taken on that early 2000s feel, i.e "I must get on the latter and make something of my life". Typical bubbles run from ~7 to ~15 years. I take the Copenhapen COP in 2009 as the start of the mania in earnest, that was the year where the Climategate gang got exposed and the politicians failed to get any agreement, then this thing has maybe a year or two left to run. The economic reality of the current situation is being bought home to people and the renewables can't use fossil fuel to subsidise unreliable generation any more. It was obvious to me in 2005 that the boom was over based on headwinds elsewhere, but, the mania was just entering its blow off phase here in Ireland and it took a few more years to play out.

So knowing that the E.S.B. plan is financially unviable economic suicide when compared to nuclear, you have gone with your usual prevarication and B.S.

Legislaton, as we know from greens to our detriment, is just a stroke of a pen

People have been selling their "mcmansions" to buy houses in the sh1t hole that is Tallagh. How long has that been going on and how many have done that ?

Only asking because it something the HSE will need to know when putting their next budget submission together. Mental services are going to need a lot more money for the area.

I would not worry or plan too much on a long term time-scale.Time is not the Irish Green Party`s friend.

Other than posting puff pieces extolling greens you really do not have a clue do you.

Your even clueless on link dumps you post that you believe extol greens as many of them show the opposite.

You do realise that renewables are getting the same price per unit supplied, and they have first shot at filling requirements, or have you still not figured out how the marginal pricing policy works. In fairness it has been explained too you enough times ,and it really isn`t complicated. If renewables are as cheap to produce as you keep claiming then those renewable energy companies must be absolutely creaming it.

Is that now your latest stock reply when caught out rambling on something you haven`t a clue on ?

Still engaged w DC? A waste of time. My advice: IGNORE, like you would an aggressive drunk on the street. No eye contact and stay away..😊

I simply gloss over his posts and scroll down. But if you reply i get to see them☹

What did the Germans do? They opened LNG terminals, reverted to coal and their industries either curtailed production, shutdown, or are in the process of moving abroad where they can get supply. Likewise if there is no gas available here in Ireland at the right price we revert to other fuel sources and no Green mandates will stop that. Wind and solar cannot set the marginal price, they are not available on demand, if the system were not rigged, they would have the lowest quality product available and be priced accordingly. That is why you see the wind lobby at the Sinn Fein Árd Fheis, they are entirely dependent on government subvention and the availability of fossil fuels. Because they are there, the government has to agree subvention payments to fossil fuels companies for balancing services. None of this is free, or do you not have to worry about paying electricity bills?

A bit of old news (2019).Climate Change has been replaced by Emergency. So, in an Emergency one would be obliged to put rules in place to tackle that, right? Like we did during the Covid pandemic. Those were super stringent and largely unnecessary imo. However, many countries have relaxed rules and restrictions while really devious people are still trying to put them into law in which they do not belong. As we all know, the Climate Emergency will simply never end and by putting reduced CO2 emission targets into law to end all debate about their purpose and effect democracy has been bypassed and the climate fascists have taken over. It is an undeniable and inconvenient truth..

Edit: to add, at least more questions are asked now that we have hit the reality wall. It is positive that journalists are at least asking the right questions io being little George Lees. This will grow as long as the real emergency, the energy emergency will bite. That will be for quite some time since we have decided that fossil fuels are the Devil and nobody will take a chance in both investment and maintenance, the latter being the most precarious one..

I burn wood pellets and do my bit protecting the environment. I should mention the wood pellets are taken from the cat litter tray after poo removal and are put on top of the antracite in a closed burner at the end of the evening.

So you see, im really trying to do the right thing..😊

Why just borrow it of course. Magic money theory (MMT) claims governments can just print wealth and run up deficits forever. The average industrial wuurker (you have to go to union school to learn to pronounce this) will pay the taxes and interest rates to support the great and good in their fight against the weather. Those UN NGO trade fairs don't pay for themselves, they need space for lots of private jets.